This is an analysis of the poem Munter that begins with:

Vackert var det att betrakta
Hjälten Adlercreutz, genralen,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXa XXXXbXXX XXXXcXXX aXXXXXXX acXXXdXX aXaXXXcX XXXXbXaX XXXXXbXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXc XXXXXXXX XXaXaXXX cXXeXXXX XXXXXXXX XXeXXXXX XXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXXaXXX XXXXaXXX aXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX aXaXXXXX XXXXXaaX eaeXbbXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111100 1100100 11111110 11001110 1110110 11101110 11101100 10110110 1110110 1011110 1010100110 10101110 11101110 1010011 1100101 1100111 1011111 1110100 1110111 110101 11111111 1111101 1011110 1111110 11111110 11011100 10101110 11111000 11111110 1111110 11111010 11101110 111111 11011110 111011 11000110 10101110 11101100 1111100 1111110 1111010 1111111 11101110 111111 10101010 1111110 11111110 1111110 1111110 11101010 11111011 1010100 11100110 11111000 1011100 1111010 1111010 11111110 1010110 1110100 11111 1110111 11111110 11101110 10111010 1111111 1111110 110111 11111100 11111010 1110110 11111100 11111 1111110 111110 1010110 1111010 1111010 1111110 11111010 1111111 1110110 110111 1010110 111110 111110 1010111 1110111 10111100 1011100 1111010 1101000 1111010 1101010 1111110 1011110 1011111 111101 1111001 101011 1111010 111110 111110 11111110 1011110 111101 1111110 111111 1010110 1111010 1111110 101100 1111010 101011 11101110 1010110001 1100111 1110110 1001000 10111 11111010 101110 11111010 101111 1111110 1111110 11111110 0111100 111111 1111100 1110111 11111010 11011110 11111110 1011110 1110110 1011010001 11111010 1011111 110001110 11111 1110111 111101 1110110 11101110 111111 1111100 111101 11111110 10110110 11011000 10111110 1110011 1101110 1101011 1010110 101111 101101 1110110 11101110 111101 10101110 11111010 11001110 11101110 1111110 1110110 11101110 1111101 11111110 101011 10001110 1011010 11101010 1111100 10111110 111111 1111110 11111110 1110100 1110111 1110111 1111110 11101110 111100 110111 1011110 101001 11101 1110101 1110110 1111111110 1110111 11101110 1111 1111110 10111 1010111 1111010 1111000 11111110 1101110 1111111 111110 101111 1100111 110111 111101 1011010 1101011 10011000 111111 1010110 10111110 11111010 111010 1100101 11111010 1100111 11100010 11111110 10111010 10111000 1111110 1111110 110100 11111110 10111010 111111 1110111 111101 1011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 232
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, och, r, k, n, ', den, att, van are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fick, van are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rde, den, ga, ', gen, nder, la, da, ra are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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